Teams are permitted to acknowledge a player’s free agency decision but may not address it in any other way during the league’s moratorium on transactions.

Players cannot sign contract until today, though the Rockets must complete several transactions before Howard will sign and the team can comment with the league’s blessing. A press conference is scheduled for Saturday.

The Rockets also received a small fine in June for a series of articles previewing NBA free agency that listed about 75 players that would become free agents.